Winter Food

following my recent post about meat, some of the interns and i at everdale, were talking about winter eating in ontario and we came up with a pretty achievable, nutritionally rounded, totally local, winter pantry.

storage fruit + veg (to be stored in root cellar, cool basement, or spare room without much heat/light):
-beets
-carrots
-parsnips
-potatoes
-squash
-cabbage
-apples
-dehydrated fruit + veg (everdale has a solar dehydrater, super easy to build. i hope to have one eventually)

green vegetables:
-kale and spinach can be havested until early december if you are lucky
- sprouts, sprouts and more sprouts!
-brussel sprouts

grain + legumes:
-basically all grain can be stored. wheat, rye, etc
-stored dried beans and peas
-most of these can also be sprouted to get some green into your diet

fat and protien:
-butter
-milk
-cheese
-eggs
-meat especially cured meat which is suited for storage

other:
-pickles and preserves

the really exciting thing about this is that a fridge is almost unnecessary. i think i could manage quite well with a small, energy efficent, bar fridge. this is the place that i hope to be at in 5 years. free from the grocery stores, self sufficient even when its -40 below.